Their house was on a hill in New York in, I think it was Kingston. Back then, their last name was De Cecco. They had De Cecco brewing. That was the Italian name. And they had their own bottles and stuff. And their house was on this hill. And so the bottom, like the basement area of the house, was down the hill. And the upper parts front of the house is on the top of the hill. And so the bottom of the hill became a speakeasy to sell their beer during The Prohibition.

And so my grandmother was this really, really tall Italian woman, and she did not play around. And one time, the IRS comes to the door, they come knocking. They say, hey, like we heard, there's a speakeasy here. We need to search the premises. My grandfather answers, he said, hold on, let me, let me go get my wife. That she's the person you want to talk to. And of course, at the time, that's not something you hear husbands say very often. So immediately I'm thinking, wow, this woman is something.

And so she comes up and she brought her little, what she calls her little black book. And pretty much when people from the big government in New York would come and drink illegally, they, instead of paying her they would just sign their names, like as an IOU. And so she went up to the door and she talked to them for a little bit and pretty much just said, I don't know what you're talking about about speakeasies, but this is my little black book, and I'm pretty sure this is your boss's signature. Because the head of the IRS at the time had been frequenting her speakeasy.

And so we still, someone, someone in the family has that black book, and they have circled the names of all the big figures at the time who were drinking at her bar. But, over time, I mean, when you learned your family ran a speakeasy as a kid, that's something that you're like, wait, what? I'm learning about The Prohibition right now in high school, why don’t you tell me about that a little more?